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Maybe TP put a bet down on a 15 year playoff drought. It would explain a lot.

Jsut send em to @Eleven eh?

Don’t forget the Doan add in the deal. It also addresses the roster construction issue by adding a more physical and less finesse style of player to the roster.

Open the phonebook, pick out a lawyer at random, tell them its your attorney and give them the number

I agree here... I think we need to start getting the best player in the trade... but maybe Kesslring was the best player for what we needed... roster construction etc... that's my hope

You make an excellent point that even if JJP was the best player in the trade, by adding Kesseiring it improves one of the team’s main weaknesses. It goes to your point about roster construction.

I read your post and it brought me back to my childhood when my Italian immigrant relatives, including my mother, would watch wrestling on TV and curse in Italian at the bad guys and the referees. To them, this was real. Their favorite wrestler of course was Ilio DiPaolo from Abruzzi (sic), Italy. He owned a successful restaurant called by his namesake. It should be noted that Buffalo was on the wrestling circuit with regular capacity crowds at the Aud.

I’d add balance/chemistry/roster building or whatever label you want to put on a well-rounded team. Part of why I was in favour of a Peterka trade well before it happened was because he was the biggest chip we had toward swiftly addressing that. I have no idea if Doan and Kesselring are part of the solution, but the concept of them certainly is.

Coaching and Goaltending

Talent is not this team’s core problem.

He should have been playing the wing where the center handles the puck more and is the primary decision maker for the line. He was misused to the point where his assets were underutilized and his liabilities were accentuated. This is another example of many of bad coaching and a lack of flexibility and creativity on their part. This is the point that @mjd1001 keenly makes in a prior post.

Well let me tell you somethin brother!!!

Not sure if this goes here or not: But sure seems like being able to defend would put sabres in a good spot.

ON THE OTHER HAND, I have just now perused some apparently credible accounts (Twitter, Reddit) from people who say they knew him in and around the Clearwater area. And I will say: There are a lot of people out there who will recount in great detail why they feel that Terry Bollea was a jerk.

I asked my parents if they knew that Chuck was from Rochester and my Dad said, yes, and that they went to the same high school and even shared classes together! Not sure why he never mentioned that back in the day when he used to listen to that music all the time. After high school, my Dad moved to Buffalo to attend UB, and he stayed until retirement (hence me being born and raised in Buffalo)....he was also a Sabres and Bills season ticket holder before retirement to warmer climes (hence me being a huge Sabres and BIlls fan).

Seems like a supremely talented individual who needs an organization that gives him the right linemates and puts him in a position to be successful doing what he does well.

RIP. Hulk Hogan leaves behind a complicated (complex?) legacy, I guess. One thing's for sure: The dude was an absolutely phenomenal entertainer. IMO, he was incredible to behold and electric to experience when at the peak of his powers. A force of nature.

I really think he did well in those tournaments because they are less structured. You are playing against, and with, teams that have a total of a few weeks to get to know each other and implement systems. Not only that but in the NHL, the D-partners (and lines for that matter) you are playing against sometimes have years together, know what they are supposed to do and know what each other will do. If there is any advanced scouting of opposition in those tournaments, its a fraction of what the NHL does. In short, compared to the NHL game, those 'slap the team together' tournaments are more a form of pond hockey, throw the puck out there and play some hockey! (not quite, but compared to the structure of the NHL. Cozens is going to do better in an environment where you don't get punished for mistakes as much, where positioning isn't as important. Where when he has some major holes in his game advanced scouting isn't there to drill it into the opponents head how to exploit it. I think in an NHL where your teamates were different every year (like re-draft the teams every year), there was minimal scouting, and little to no training camp/practice....in a league like that Cozens very well might be one of the top 50 or at least 100 players in the entire league. But that is not the NHL....but it is a lot more like the World championship tournament.

I hope you can sleep now.

I think they would have gone national on someone else’s back if he wasn’t around. But that doesn’t really change anything. All that matters is what did actually did happen and that was Hulkamania.

Maybe, maybe not, but it doesn't change the fact that Austin had a shorter, but actually higher 'peak'. I'm not trying to diminish Hogan, the WWE would likely not have gained popularity without him. However, they were already gaining popularity by the time he came around (making the production more family friendly/moving to Saturday morning and saturday niight broadcasts, etc.) and they had plenty of other stars to market that were very popular (Savage, Andre the Giant, Jesse Ventura, Roddy Piper, Brett Hart, Ultimate Warrior, and others.) Hogan was the biggest star of the 80s, but the world of wrestling was going to grow with our without him, the question is simply 'how fast'?

I don't know whether Ruff is confident in UPL. He certainly can't say otherwise; we've seen recently what happens there. Adams obviously does, and it is stupid, as you say. "Maybe this year he proves us wrong" is forever now. Unless he has some weird Tim Thomas arrival moment, he is what he's going to be, and that's not a playoff-caliber starter in the NHL.

Without Hogan blazing the trail, does Austin ever get that sizeable an audience to shine in front of?

I heard Mangione play at the West Seneca West HS auditorium. I think he was on a personal crusade to open ears to jazz.

Everything in the quote box is from the article. I don't agree with the "consensual part" as clearly the girl involved felt some line was crossed. I am fine with approaching Hart but Adams will not. He and Ruff believe in UPL and are stupid and stubborn. There's almost no evidence that UPL is consistent enough to be a reliable starter without a team selling all out for defense. Maybe this year he proves us wrong but if I had a team in 14yr playoff drought and was responsible for 5 of those years, I would be a bit more cut throat than Adams is or will ever be.